The World Economic Forum is having its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where world and business leaders will meet to discuss their agenda for the year. To discuss, we FEATURE Lilac Nachum. Nachum is a Professor of International Business at Baruch College, the Director of the Centre for the study of Russian and Emerging Market Multinationals of St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and leads a consulting project for Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting on value creation and appropriation in global supply chains. Nachum has also consulted with a number of national and international organizations, including the United Nations, the European Union, London's Westminster City Council, the Government of Turkey, the US Department of Commerce, UAE SWF on issues related to Multinational Corporations and globalization. Media includes: Forbes, India Economic Times, Business World India, CNBC, FOX Business, CNN.

Oxfam's annual report, which was released to coincide with the World Economic Forum, highlights global economic inequality, and shows that economic systems are biased against women. Their findings include that 22 men own more wealth than all the women in Africa, and that women and girls around the world do 12.5 billion hours of unpaid work a day. To discuss, we FEATURE Chandra Childers. Childers is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. She is an expert on social stratification and social and economic inequality by race and sex, Childers examines issues related to women and girls of color and job quality.  Some of Childer's publications include the Status of Black Women in the United States, Status of Women in the South, and Black and Hispanic Women Lag in Recovering from the Recession. Media includes: The Nation, The Atlantic, Voice of America, Refinery29, Al Jazeera. 

Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault and rape trial has begun today in New York. To discuss, we FEATURE Jennifer Freyd, PhD. Freyd is Director of the Project on Institutional Courage and Founder of The Center for Institutional Courage. She is also a Member of the Advisory Committee, 2019-2023, for the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and leader of the Program on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sexual Violence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, 2019-20, where she was a Fellow, 1989-90 and 2018-19. Media includes: The New York Times, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, Voice of America.

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The Supreme Court announced it will not fast track a case that could kill the Affordable Care Act, thereby reducing the pressure on President Trump to present an alternative before November's election. To discuss, we FEATURE Jennifer D. Oliva. Oliva is an Associate Professor at West Virginia University in the College of Law and School of Public Health. In the College of Law, she teaches evidence and public health law courses and directs the WVU Veterans Advocacy Clinic, which represents West Virginia veterans in litigation before administrative agencies and courts, on benefits, discharge upgrades, employment claims and other civil and criminal matters. Extensive media experience. 

The Supreme Court has allowed the residents of Flint, Michigan, to sue the city for allowing the city's water supply to be contaminated with lead. To discuss, we FEATURE Tamara Toles O'Laughlin. O'Laughlin is a native New Yorker and environmentalist focused on equity, access and community. She develops capacity building programs and creates multimedia campaigns to dismantle privilege and increase opportunities for vulnerable populations to access healthy air, clean energy, and a toxic free economy at the local, regional, and national level. O'Laughlin recently joined 350.org as its North America Director where she will support and be accountable to organizers and campaigners on the United States and Canada teams. She will also drive the critical work of building a multiracial, grassroots climate movement that can hold our leaders accountable to science and justice. Media includes: Chesapeake Bay Journal, Grist, Real News Network. 

Utah has become the 19th state to ban conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth. To discuss, we FEATURE Reverend Irene Monroe. Reverend Monroe is an ordained minister, motivational speaker and she speaks for a sector of society that is frequently invisible. She writes a weekly column in the Boston home LGBTQ newspaper Baywindows. As an religion columnist, she tries to inform the public of the role religion plays in discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. By reporting religion in the news, she aims to highlight how religious intolerance and fundamentalism not only shatters the goal of American democracy, but also aids in perpetuating other forms of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism and anti-Semitism. Media includes: Boston Globe, Baywindows, Huffington Post, The Advocate, Cambridge Chronicle, New England Channel NEWS, NPR.

A deadly coronavirus that is believed to have started in China has now spread to Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and the United States (Seattle). The outbreak has infected over 400 people in China. To discuss, we FEATURE Dabney P. Evans, PhD, MPH. Evans is an Assistant Professor of Global Health in the Hubert Department of Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She is a mixed-methods researcher of issues affecting vulnerable populations at the intersection of public health and human rights. She is also Director of the Center for Humanitarian Emergencies in the Rollins School of Public Health and the Emory University Institute of Human Rights. Media includes: The New York Times, The Hill, Atlanta Journal Constitution, PBS. 

The 2020 Grammy Awards are on Sunday, but following the suspension of CEO Deborah Dugan, the Recording Academy is in the midst of a scandal. Dugan alleges that she was punished for speaking up against misconduct within the Academy. To discuss, we FEATURE Maya Raghu. Raghu is Director of Workplace Equality and Senior Counsel at the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C. She leads federal and state policy development and advocacy, litigation, public education, and stakeholder engagement focused on women's economic security and employment opportunity, including equal pay, pregnancy discrimination, and sexual harassment, with an emphasis on women of color in low wage jobs. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, PBS, MSNBC, BBC.  

Today marks the anniversary of Roe v Wade, which saw the legalization of abortion nationwide. To discuss, we FEATURE Sarah Erdreich. Erdreich is a reproductive rights activist. She is the author of Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement and the Women’s Media Center’s “Media Guide to Covering Reproductive Issues.” She has worked for several prominent pro-choice organizations and The National Partnership for Women and Families have noted her incisive writings on abortion rights. Media includes: Newsweek, Jezebel, Bitch Magazine.

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